If statements vs case

[Shao Sean]

> Sorry, what do you mean that IF-ELSE-IF is always evaluated?

If you have a 20 line nested IF-ELSE-IF statement and the one that 
matches your current situation is the 20th one, the previous 19 are 
evaluated (thankfully Rev uses some short-circuited methods to speed it 
up)

In a SWITCH statement the engine/compiler converts the CASE statements 
into a hashed lookup table (think fast) and as such when the SWITCH 
statement is evaluated it just quickly looks up the code to run in the 
hash table.

As I mentioned in my first posting, if you're only using the IF-ELSE-IF 
statement a few times, you don't have to wait for the SWITCH lookup 
table to be hashed (adding overhead the first time a SWITCH statement 
is called)

Also mentioned in my first posting, how much of this applies to 
Revolution in general only they know, as Revolution allows you to some 
weird things with the SWITCH statements that you couldn't do in other 
languages (apparently a lot of languages the result of the SWITCH 
statement can only be an integer)

-Sean